President Trump announced plans Monday to privatize the nation's air traffic control system, arguing that it is the best way to modernize the system. "We live in a modern age, but our air traffic control system is stuck, painfully, in the past," he said at a White House event attended by current and former transportation department officials. "At a time when every passenger has GPS technology in their pockets, our air traffic control system still runs on radar and ground-based radio systems that they don't even make anymore. In fact, Canada, which typically has a more liberal government, privatized its own air traffic control system in 1996. The air traffic control announcement Monday is the start of a "infrastructure week" planned by the Trump administration.

Source: CNN June 05, 2017 14:56 UTC